Ringing in the changes in Cave Tourism

Dr. Julia James.

Abstract

In keeping with the conference theme “Winds of Change” this presentation will briefly give an overview of some of the recent changes in cave tourism.

Examples will be taken from caves on six out of the seven continents and include:

• New caves opened and old caves re-opened for tourism.
• Refurbishing of existing tourist caves.
• The ever-growing variety of tours.
• World heritage caves.

All changes will be assessed by the speaker and given a bell rating from 10 to 0, rankings that will definitely be open to debate.